Think Climate Change Is No Big Deal? Think Again.

Some people are worth melting for, but this is a little ridiculous.

Fact: 97 percent of climate scientists agree the climate is changing and humans are largely to blame.

With a near-unanimous consensus among the experts, it would seem as though the rest of the public would heed their advice and take action. Sadly, that has not been the case. One reason for this might be that the average person is fairly short-sighted and has a hard time believing the climate is warming because it snowed in their hometown that day.

Climatologists, on the other hand, look at long-term trends spanning thousands of years.

That's not to say that dramatic differences can't be seen on shorter scales than that. The following images released by NASA as part of their Images of Change program demonstrate that major changes can occur in a relatively short amount of time, and the time to make changes is now.